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CHAPTER XXXIX

INTRODUCES SOME

RESPECTABLE

CHARACTERS WITH

WHOM THE READER IS

ALREADY ACQUAINTED,

AND SHOWS HOW

MONKS AND THE JEW

LAID THEIR WORTHY

HEADS TOGETHER

n the evening following that upon which the three
Oworthies mentioned in the last chapter, disposed of
their little matter of business as therein narrated, Mr. Wil-
liam Sikes, awakening from a nap, drowsily growled forth